Associated risks for long term pneumonia complications
Clinically diagnosed and radiographically confirmed pneumonia during the
first 3 years of life is a known risk factor. Compared to those without
pneumonia, young adults had a two-fold increased risk of active
physician-diagnosed asthma.6
Also infants with poor respiratory function at birth are at risk of
developing both pneumonia and later long term respiratory problems.
Children with immunodeficiency or cystic fibrosis are at risk of
recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis and restrictive lung disease.
Furthermore socioeconomic factors with children from marginalised and
indigenous populations having more recurrent pneumonia and frequent
hospital admissions. Certain implicated pathogens are linked with
sequela with adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae leading to
bronchiectasis and bronchiolitis obliterans as respiratory sequalae.